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THE DALLAS PUST, DALLAS, PA. FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1932.
No. 32
Headlines
Of The Week
$8 A summary of this week's
news of international in-
terest, reviewed for Post
readers.
REFORMER
Posing as a friend of fallen women,
Rev. H. E. Davidson, Episcopal minis.
ter from Stiffkey, England, was this
week found by a church court to be
guilty of immorality while serving as
a reformer among unfortunate girls.
The court charged Mr. Davidson Kissed
and cuddled girls under his care and
asked bestowal of their favors.
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HAIL ,
Startled by heavy thumps about
them, sweltering folk in Avoca, near
Scranton, looked into the air last Sun-
day and then scurried for cover to es-
cape injury from hailstones, two in-
ches in diameter, which fell during a
freak thunderstorm. About 3,000 win.
diws in towns in upper Luzerne coun-
ty were broken.
FIRE
Sitting on Pier 4, along Chesapeake
bay, Baltimore, to get a breath of cool
sea, air, a watchman last Sunday night
saw a spiral of smoke drifting from
the pier shed. He spread an alarm
and for three hours nearly all Bal-
timore’s fire-fighting equipment and
two fire boats battled a stubborn’ blaze
which caused a $600,000 loss and in-
jured seven firemen and one of the
25,000 spectators. :
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HOGS
: The lowly hog was seen as the har-
binger of Petter times this week. At
Chicago's stock yards, economists
have watched the longest unceasing
advance in hog prices ever known.
For thirty.four days hog prices have
been gaining, increasing the value of
livestock on farms $100,000,000 or more.
Prices still are well below the five
and ten year average.
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CABARET «
In Broadway Brevities, pornagrfaphic
New York tabloid this week the col-
"umn titled “strictly Confidential” car.
ried this note: “In Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
there is = cabaret that compares fav-
orably with the hottest place in New
York.” :
SUSPENDED :
Because they were accused of kill-
ing Hyman Stark, prisoner, with their
brutal “third degree” methods, 13
Long Island policemen were suspended
this week, aftr they had been idntie-
fied by three men who were arrested
with Stark. Policemen, the men said,
handcuffed them to chairs, beat them
with rubber hose, kicked them and
dragged them about by the hair.
SCOUTS
Girl Scouts at Camp Onawandah,
White's Ferry, had a visitor this week.
One afternoon they saw a glider circl-
ing overhead. It came down and J. K.
O'Meara stepped out. He had glided
eighty miles from Elmira in his mot-
orless glider in four hours and twenty
minutes and was believed to have es-
tablished a new American record.
SWIMMER
Miss Margaret Hoffman of Kingston
is on her way to Los Angeles to com-
pete in the Olympics after having
broken ‘the world’s record for the 200
meter breast stroke in the tryouts.
4-H CLUB GIRLS
WILL GO TO CAMP
The following communities and
people of ‘Luzerne county will be re-
presented at the 4-H Camp at Forks-
ville, Sullivan County:
Nescopeck, Esther Kahler, Helen
Seeley, Lois Remensnyder; Conyng.
ham, Margaret Smith, Bdna Sewell;
Shavertown, Olive Anthony, Betty An-
thony, Helen Anthony, Marion Rog-
ers; Carverton, Flora Jean Stock, Wil-
ma, Stock, Elizabeth Culver, Stan Lea
Lehman, Ruth Kinsman.
Thompson;
The 4-H Camp is run under the au-
spices of the Pennsylvania State Col-
lege club department and gives a week
of intensive training in Leadership, to
those attending, states Miss E. Nitz-
kowski, Home Economics Representa-
tive of State College. These girls will
bring back help and inspiration that
will be a deciding factor in their club
work for the coming year.
Rotary Adopts
Four Projects
For This Year
Members Select Most
Important Jobs On
List
COMMENDABLE MOVE
Four projects considered of major
importance to any progress in the
Back Mountain region will be suppor-
ed and developed by Greater Dallas
Rotary club, with cooperation of oth-
er service clubs and community-min-
ded citizens, during the next year as
resulf of a vote taken at the club's
meeting last week. ;
; Ten suggestions which have been
considered by the club frequently dur-
ing the last two years and on several
of which the club already has made
progress were presented to members,
who voted to select the most impor.
tant as the projects on which the
club could concentrate for the year.
Consolidation of the high schools in
Kingston township, Dallas borough
and Dallas township was e6nsidered
by the majority of members the most
important. This suggestion received
more first votes than any other pro-
ject. i
Adequate water supply and the ex-
tension of the pavement from” Trucks-
ville into Dallas, with the rerouting
of the State highway to miss Main
street of Luzerne and connect directly
with Kingston were given more first,
second and third places than any other
project, however.
Of fourth importance in considera-
(tion of the Rotarians was equaliza-
tion and reduction of taxes. Fred
Frace, president, divided the member.
ship into four committees which will
carry on the four-point program.
By adequate water supply, the Ro-
tarians meant a sufficient supply for
reserve household uses and for fire-
fighting and sanitation, f
The road project will be an effort
to secure a modern, wide, safe and
smooth highway from Wyoming valley
to Dallas.
Other projets suggested and voted
upon were: Reduced fire insurance
rates, sanitary sewage system, includ-
ing the sanitation of Toby's creek; in-
dustrial growth, zoning and park sys.
tem, home beautiful campaign and re-!
duction of street car fares from Wilk-
es-Barre to Dallas.
Rotarians received considerable com-
mendagion this week for their aggres-
sivenegs and for the efficient manner:
in whicH they surveyed and selected the
most worth.while projects. Co-opera-
tion of citizens of the region will be
welcomed and it is urged that a genu.
ine and sincere effort ‘to support the
Rotary, program be made by every-
one. >
Wright Reunion
The twenty-fourth annual reunion
of the Wright family will be held at
Montross Grove, where it was held last
president.
Lead Second Week’s
Photo shows Gov. Franklin D. woosevelt,-nominated by ‘the Demo-=
cratic Party, for President, and Speaker Garner, nominated for Vice. x
“Straw” Vote
Former Stull Residents will Hold
| Reunion At Deserted Town Sunday
First Annual Reunion Was
Held Last Year With
175 Persons Present
Once again Stull, deserted Wyoming
county lumbering town, will buzz with
activity and the sound of many voices
this Sunday when former
hold their second annual reunion.
"At one time this little town locateed
along Bowman's Creek above Noxen
was one of the most active lumbering
centers in this region but for a num.
ber of years .past Stull has gradually
sunken into the ranks of a deserted
Its school houses and church,
its big lumber mil land even its once
venerable dam and lumber pond have
all disappeared. Only a few houses
and an occasional log road and rail-
road siding remain to tell the story of
the industry that once thrived there.
Last year 175 former residents gath-
ered there, formed an association and
elected officers to assure the annual
reunion. Those chosen were Gerndon
Shook, president, Beulah Stitzer Van-
Campen, secretary and treasurer.
Committees appointed were: Grounds,
Edward Transue and Alfred Lauder-
bach; committee on arrangements,
Mrs. Alonzo Prutzman, Mrs. Herman
Davenport, Stella Shook, Mrs. Lloyd
Whitebread, Mrs. Cassie Farmer and
Eva Beam. 4
With this organization to make plan i
and advertise the event, it is expected
that this year's celebration will ex-
ceed that of last year in point of at.
tendance and entertainment. There
will be swimming, quoit pitching,
lunch and ample time for renewing ac-
quaintances and recounting tales of
former days. ;
village.
Present Concert
Quartet from Kingston M. E. church
presented a concert last Sunday night
on the pavilion at Irem Temple coun-
try club. It was the fifth of a ser.
year, on Thursday, July 28.
ies of Sunday night concerts.
residents.
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TENT FOR LEGION
CIRCUS TO SEAT
20,000 PERSONS
Great tent which will house
the American Legion circus to
be held on Valmont plot, op-
posite Kirby Park, in Kingston
tomorrow night and next week
will seat 20,000 persons. /
Si xfeatured circus acts will
perform each night of the affair.
Official opening will be tomorrow
night. Season passes, which
may be used each night, are be-
ing sold by local legionairs:
Mary Sordoni |
' Visits Capitol
Miss Mary Sordoni, daughter of Sen-
ator. A. J. Sordonia, occupied a seat
within the Senate enclosure when the
upper branch of the assembly recon-
vened for the week Monday night.
Miss Sordoni went to thé capital
with ‘her father and. her’ governess.
Tine as her first visit to he legis.
la alls, anu ote was keenly
tel d in the deliberations.
Mss Sordoni will remain here until
the Senate adjourns for the week.
WORK BEGINS ON
NEW CAPITAL ROOF
iN.
The Capital is getting a new roof.
About 60 men are being given em-
ployment on the project by the con.
tractor, Louis Ruger Company, Phil-
adelphia.
The new roof, of tile and metal
work, has been under contemplation
since the last year of the first ad-
ministration of Governor Pinchot.
Recent leaks have made the work
manadatory in spite of the necessity
for curtailing expenditures due to the
State's financial condition.
The cost will be approximately
iof the Eighteenth Amend-
Democratic Candidates
Front In Poll; Wets Retain Lead
Forge To
Republican Lead In
Second Returns
DRYS STRONGER
TOTAL VOTE
Hoover and Curtis .......... 240
Roosevelt and Garner ...... 264
Repeal... 00. tea 216
Prohibition i... lei cindy 184
made steady gains during the
week, forces favoring repeal
ment retained their lead in
the Dallas Post poll at the
end of the second week of
balloting yesterday.
. Hoover and Curtis, Repub-
lican candidates, lost their
lead in the presidential poll
and saw Roosevelt and Garn-
er supporters pile up a major-
ity ot twenty-four votes.
Three hundred fourteen!
votes were cast during the
second week of the Post’s
“Straw” vote, as compared
with 190 votes cast in the
first week. Total number of
votes cast is 504.
Only thirteen persons wrote in the
ballots that they prefer a thir party.
Several persons crossed out Prohibi-
tion and wrote “Modification.” One
vote was cast for Norman Thomas,
Socialist candidate for President.
From the great number of Demo-
cratic votes cast, it is evident the
Roosevelt-Garner forces were stimu.
lated by the announcement that Hoov-
er and Curtis had led in the first week
of the poll. The Democratic candidat-
es received 189 votes during the week,
as compared to seventy-five during the
preceding week. :
Prohibitionists were stronger than
during the preceding week and cast
144 votes as compared wit sixty-six
cast for repeal. Here, also, it was
evident that the Drys had been stimu.
lated by the first week's returns,
which showed a large majority for the
Wets.
The great lead piled up in the first
weeks voting gave the Repeal forces
an advantage, however, and they con-
tinued to lead at the end of the se-
cond week. !
Majority of the votes cast this week
were deposited in the ballot box in
front of the Risley Major Hardware
store on Main street, Dallas, where
ballots, pencils and newspapers were
provided.
(Continued on Page 4.)
Office Changes
The Department of Banking has
been moved to new offices on The sec-
ond floor of the Claster Building, Mar-
ket street. The old banking depart-
ment offices are now occupied by the
$178,000.
personnel bureau and the department
of the Attorney Germeral.
GUNS ON POLITICAL FRONT BEGIN
HOOVER WILL WIN
We believe President Hooverswill be
re-elected next November. We base
that belief on the firm conviction that
the American people cannot be stam-
peded in times of stress. If this de-
pression were local only, if it
confined to our own country, the vot.
ers would no doubt hold the adminis-
tration responsible. That is the usual
way. But the depression is world-
wide and the intelligence of this nation
is coming to realize é that President
Hoover had no more to do with it
than the man in the moon. It is the
logical sequel to the greatest and most
terrible war in the world’s history.
—Warren (O.) Tribune.
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“ COLD POLITICAL BARGAIN"
Without seeking to inject bitterness
into Governor Roosevelt's hour of tri-
umph, we feel bound to say that both
the way in which the nomination was
made and the prospect it holds out for
the United States must strike dismay
into many American hearts.
The nomination was bought by as
cold a political bargain as our conven-
tion histories have known. Speaker
John N. Garner, in control of the nine-
ty votes of California and Texas, was
bribed by an offer of the Vice Presi.
dential nomination to hand over to
Governor Roosevelt the Presidential
nomination.
—New York Evening Post (Ind. Rep.)
NO COMPARISON
On a straight issue between the two
nothing to fear from Mr. Roosevelt in
this or any campaign. There is no
comparison to be inade between the
intellectual stature, grasp of
in
two in
national and international affairs,
in courage, and, generally, in those
qualities that go to make a states-
man.
(men, Herbert Hoover would have | shortest, the clearest and the best
the possession of constructive ideas, | the main it is boldly progressive ... .
10 BARK
lits courage.—Washington News (Ind.)
UNIQUE IN CLARITY
The platform (Democratic) is the
advanced by either of the two parties
in recent times. On prohibtion re-
peal and Volstead modification it goes
all the way. On economic’ issues in
As a whole and as a major party plat-
form it is unique in its clarity and
For President
Hoover
Roosevelt
CAST YOUR VOTE TODAY
Check Mark Will Dare Preference
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NAME... rane teres
(The signature of the verson casting the vote is
not necessary but is requested as an assurance of
sincerity and good faith. No rames will be used.)
A NOBLE EXPERIMENT
* :
The Democratic party has gone far
across the Rubicon on the question
of repeal of the eighteenth amendment
It not only commits itself and its can.
didates to repeal, but “pending Re-
peal it demands immediate modifica.
tion of the Volstead Act _... It is a
noble experiment . . . "The platform
adopted by the Democratic national
convention has the merit of clearness
and brevity. It bears the marks of
imaster hands. — Washilgton Post
' (Rep.). 2
“BEST THING OF ITS KIND”
For Vice-President
The majority plank adopted by the
Democrats . is the best thing of
its kind we have ever seen.— New
York Evening Post (Rep.)
EXPRESSES SENTIMENT
We believe the Democratic platform
expresses. in its prohibition plank the
majority sentiment of the country.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.
SHOULD FEEL PROUD
Democrats the country over should
thrill with pride at the clean-cut man.
ner in which their party has met the
greatest issue.in American politics to-
day.—Richmond _(Va.) Times-Dispatch
Roosevelt - Garner Overcome
Though Prohibitionists
“Motorist” Notes
July Issue Of Motor Club
Magazine Is Out This
Week Fo
Progress on the new short route
from Tunkhannock to Williamsport,
ported by Norman Johnstone, secre
tary-manager of Wyoming Valley Mo-
tor club, in his article in the currtnt
issue of Wyoming Valley Motorist, of-
ficial publication of the motor club and
which is published by Post Publica=
tions, owners of The Dallas Post.
Intention of the State highway de-
partment, with the assistance of the
Bureau of Roads at Washingon, is to
build a new highway from Tunkhan-
nock to Williamsport as a short route
from Cleveland, Erie and othtr points
in Northeastern Pennsylvania to New
York State, entering at Sayre and
Binghamton, Mr. Johnstone writes. '
The part which is of interest to lo-
cal persons is the section from Leh=~
man to Williasmport. Part of the
man to Williamsport. Part of this
highway is under construction, includ=-
ing tha piece from Red Rock to Ben-
ton and from Benton to Rohrsburg. A
detour is in effect between Red Rock
and Benton and betwetn Benton and
Rohrsburg. This month, bids were op-
ened to pave the road from Red Rock
toward Noxen.
| Before the year is completed, Mr.
Johnstone reports, the whole road will
be under construction from Rohrsburg
to Bowman’s Creek. It is the inten.
tion of the State to pave the route
from Bowman's Creek to Tunkhan-
nock in 1933.
The Motorist this month also care
ries an interesting article entitled
“Gatineau River Country Lures Local
Sportsmen” written by Fred M. Kief-
er of Dallas. The article presents &
colorful picture of the Canadian ter-
ritory Mr. Kiefer knows so well
Floyd Taylor
Arrested In
‘Robbery Case
Harvey’s Lake Chief Reports
Youth Has Confessed To
Stealing $81 From Sweet
Valley Man !
Floyd Taylor, 20, of R. D. 2, Dallas,
is being held by Chief of Police L
C. Stevenson, of Harvey's Lake for a
hearing on a charge of burglary.
The youth is alleged to ‘have con-
fessed to entering the home ef Jacob
Winterfi of Sweet Valley road, at
Meeker, last Thursday night and
stealing $81 from the man's .trouge
ers while the latter was asleep.
Chief of Police Stevenson was no-
tified and he secured the aid of State
The arrest of Taylor followed
polce.
ter he is said to have admitted the
burglary police said Taylor told them
he had been in Wilkes.Barre Monday
morning and had used $50 of the $81
as a deposit for an’ automobile at a
local agency. He used $9 to transfer
a title and to make application for
tags for the machine which had been
left at the agency. In his room, police
said, they found the remaining $22. i
Boat Upsets;
Two Rescued
By Neighbor
When a stiff breeze upset’a sail-
boat in the middle of Harveys=Fake
late Monday afternoon, George J.
LeTiecq, of 273 South River street,
Wilkes-Barre, manager of Auchincloss
Redpath & Parker, brokers, and his
son and namesake, aged 7 years, had
narrow escapes from drowning before
being rescued by Robert Rosenbluth,
son of Attorney S. M. Rosenbluth of
Wilkes.Barre. Two men in a row boat,
whose names could not be learned,
also gave aid.
Fortunately LeTiecq and his
were in swimming suits and both are
good swimmers. They were sailing
along without incident, at about 5
o'clock, when the sudden luft of strong
wind capsized the light craft, throw-
ing them both into the water. They
son
boat. Calls for help could not be
heard on shore and considerable time
passed. It was Rosenbluth, who final-
ly chanced along in his motor boat.
‘At about the same time the two men
in a row boat had also come near the
scene.
When finally rescued Mr.
(Dem.)
was nearing complete exhaustion.
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New Short Route
through Red Rock and Benton, is re--
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at his home yesterday afternoon. Af-
managed to cling to the overturned
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